**Show the world what you can do.
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We are looking for a Front-End Technology Lead.
The Front-End Technology Lead (FETL) is responsible for designing and writing code, performing code reviews, developing technical documentation and becomes a key contributor in their team and project.
A Front-End Technology Lead acts as a technical leader in projects, ensuring that the team maintains high levels of performance, and builds and strengthens the relationship with the client.
The FETL will work closely with clients, developers, system administrators, project managers, business analysts and end users.
**In this role you will**:
- Will be in charge of presentations to clients, directly working with other groups such as Creative, Business and Technology
- Code reviewing, mentoring and enforces coding guidelines and best practices for more Junior teammates
- Help coordinate the team's technical communication with other groups such as Creative, Business and Management
- When acting as the technical leader, owns the technical architecture and design of the web solution and oversees the front-end development activities
- Gather new user and business requirements, maps them to appropriate technical solutions and estimates the associated development tasks
- Ensure concise and clear documentation is maintained by all peers for the projects as dictated by each Capability's guidelines and best practices
- Own software release activities, including but not limited to reviewing code changes, client demos, QA hand-offs, and presenting solutions and justifications for tasks
- Debug or troubleshoots complex or critical issues that cannot be handled by junior positions, and provides root cause analysis
- Establish project scaffolding and associated automation tools for the project
- Create training programs for technologies within fields of expertise
- Actively participates in Capability activities and initiatives
- Responsible to setup regular one-on-one meetings to provide coaching, feedback, career development, and status reporting
**What are we looking for?
Besides a great attitude,**
**You should have**:
- Advanced English Knowledge (B2+ reading, writing, and conversation).
- At least 5 years of experience working exclusively with Front-End technologies (HTML/CSS/JavaScript)
- Capable dealing with Cross-browser and Responsive development
- Expert knowledge of recent development patterns and practices (Mobile First, MVC, Object Oriented development)
- Expert knowledge on integrating front-end development with several common Back-End technologies (.Net, Java, PHP, Ruby) and third-party platforms
- Proficiency with popular JavaScript frameworks, ES6 and cross-browser compatibility
- Work experience configuring, using, and troubleshooting tools such as process automation & scripting (eg.
Webpack or Gulp) and pre-process tools (eg.
SASS, LESS)
- Minimum of 2 years of proven track record as a technical team leader, communication, teamwork and leadership skills experience required
- Expert knowledge of Front-End technologies (HTML/CSS/JavaScript)
- Expert cross browser and Responsive development
- Expert knowledge of pre-processed CSS styling (SASS, LESS)
- Capable of configuring automation tools such as Webpack or Gulp and including common project tasks such as: pre-processing, minification, code obfuscation, etc.
- Knowledge of design patterns (e.g., model-view-controller, observer, object oriented, etc.)
and working with several mainstream libraries and frameworks (jQuery, Angular, Ember, Backbone, React, VueJS, or any other)
- Capable of designing and choosing a quality assurance process for the project including guidelines for unit tests, load testing, performance testing
- Capable of writing code compliant with modern accessibility (eg.
ARIA, WCAG, Microformats, ADA, RDF) and SEO guidelines and best practices
- Capable of working with new technologies and building proof of concept prototypes.
- Capable of troubleshooting, debugging and doing root cause analysis of web platform issues
**It's a plus if you have**:
- SCRUM Fundamentals Certification or equivalent practical experience.
- Six Sigma Fundamentals Certification or equivalent practical experience.
- CMS Experience
**Competencies to be successful in this role**:
- Develops Talent
- Interpersonal savvy
- Manages Ambiguity
- Tech savvy